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FRANCIS ROACH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH ZANE, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 71,790, dated ,December 3, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN BASIN-FAUGETS.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS ROACH, of Boston, of the county of Sui'olk, and State of Massachusetts, have" made anew and useful Invention Relating to Basin-Faucets; and do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawing, which denotes avertical section of a basin-faucet provided with my said invention.

The object of such invention is not only to construct a basin-faucet on the principle of the faucet ,invented by meA and described in Letters Patent, No. 55,784, granted to me and Joseph Zane, but so as to enable the main operative parts of the faucet to be easily raised out of its body, as occasion may require, for their disconnection or repair.

The main body or case of the faucet is shown at F as furnishedwith an induction-pipe, P,-and a discharge tube, L, and chambered in manner as represented, it being open at its upper end'.` Within the chamber, and extending around it, is a projection, n, having a female screw cut in its inner surface. A cap, H, fits upon the top or mouth of the body F, and has a tubular projection, R, extending down from it, and terminating in a. valve-seat, z'. The projection R has a small screw, o, to screw into and rest upon the part n", before mentioned. An inverted or bell-shaped valve-case, D, is screwed on the projection R, (as shown at X,) such case D being arranged within the body F. 4lHoles e e are nradeA through the sides of the case D; and there is arranged within the oase a valve, A, provided with a. stem, a, and a guide, b, arranged with respect to it in manner as represented. The valve is pressed up tothe seat z' by means of a helical springc, arranged within the case D, and resting upon the bottom of such case. lA hole, r, for reception of the guide b, is made through the bottom of the case D. Furthermore, one or more openings, 7L h, are formed through the sides of thechamber projection R. A quick-threaded screw, G, is screwed into and through the cap H, such screw, at its lower end, being provided with a head, m, against which the top of the spindle a rests. The stem of the screw G passes through a stung-cap or box, I, screwed on the cap H, and such stem has a handle, K, fixed upon its upper end, the whole being arranged in manner as represented in the drawing.

By laying hold of the handle K and revolving the screw-G, the valve A may be pressed off its seat, the i elastic force of the spring c serving to return the valve to its scat, and to cause the screw G to revolve back after the hand may have been removed from the handle. When the valve is forced oi'f its seat, the liquid, when in the body F, will pass through the holos e e, thence into the valve-case D, thence through the valve-seat into the chamber projection R, thence out of the latter through the holes 7L and thence into the upper part of the body F, and iinally into and through the spout or pipe L.

Instead of a valve-case, D, screwed to theseat-projection R in manner as described, the spring c may be supported on a perforated partition extended across the body F, and having a hole made through it for recep- IA prefer, however, to have the valve-case D connected with the seat-case or extension R, as under such crcumstancesithe former, with the valve and its spring, may be drawn out of the body with the seat-projection RL I claim the combination and arrangement ofthe valve-seat ease or the head-extension R and its cap H with the faucet-body F, the. valve A, its operative screwG, and spring c.

I also claim the combination as well as the arrangement of the valve-case D with the valve-seat case R, its cap H, the faucet-body F, the valve A, its operative screw G, and spring c, the whole being constructed subt t' ll 'n manner and so as to o erate as s ecified. s an la y] p p FRANCIS ROACH.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,- F. P. HALE, Jr. 

